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Crowdsourcing and phylogenetic modelling reveal parrot tool use is not rare

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By Scott Claessens, Ximena Nelson, David Welch, Amalia PM Bastos
| BioRxiv
Abstract Studying the prevalence of putatively rare behaviours, such as tool use, is challenging because absence of evidence can arise either from a species' inability to produce the behaviour or from insufficient research effort. Here, we tackle this challenge by combining crowdsourcing and phylogenetic modelling to approximate actual rates of a rarely observed behaviour based on limited data, targeting tool use in parrots.
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